Re: counting calories

[Guest guest]

wrote:

> I'm just starting a CRON lifestyle -- changing my eating habits

> without having yet started to count or restrict calories. I'm

> wondering if anyone has any suggestions for easy ways to count

> calories. Most of Walford's recipes involve many ingredients, making

> calorie counting difficult. For instance, I'm tearing off big hunks

> of Romaine lettuce, red cabbage, spinach, etc to put in my salads,

> but I really don't know what quantities of each of these I'm using. I

> would think a " cup of chopped such-and-such " could vary in mass

> depending on how compacted the chopped up hunks are. Do I need a

> scale to measure quantities by mass for this purpose?

>

> Do any of you try to use the exact ingredients and quantities in the

> recipes so that you can simply use the calorie count listed in the

> book for that dish? Do you prepare simpler dishes with fewere

> ingredients so that calorie counting is easier? Or do you just resign

> yourself to many complex calculations?

>

> Right now I'm primarily just trying to get an approximate idea of how

> many calories per day I currently consume -- how many calories of the

> new, healthy, CRON food I need in order to maintain my current weight.

> Thanks in advance

Hi : Let me tell you what I do. I do count approximate cal after a

fashion. I'm not that strict about every little stringbean though. One can

get too obsessive about this and mental health is important too!!

Many of us just eat as much salad and low cal/low glycemic type veggies

as we want, since the calories are so low. It's the protein portion of the

meal (and of course any fruit or desserts that you include in your diet)

that pack on the calories. So make sure your protein is adequate and if you

fill yourself up on salad and veggies - well there are a lot worst things in

life! Believe me you'll do just fine on that plan.

[Guest guest]

> I never counted calories, never. Instead I simply let my body and the scale

> do the work for me. My body tells me if I overeat and the scale confirms

> that if it needs to go down eat leass> This really helps you to get inn

> touch with your body and its needs, rather than the artificial ones.

>

> Regards,

>

> Mike Colella

See 's classic discussion on how he does it in the files.- ( " How one

CRONIE does it " ). Although doesn't count cals, it IS essential to

eat fewer calories than you would ad lib to really be on CRON. Choose low

cal foods and you DON " T have to count. It's all in what you eat. As I said

in a previous post, if you " fill up " on salad and low cal/low glycemic

vegetables, you'll do OK.